Edgar Allen Lyons

Tonganoxie – Services for Edgar Allen Lyons, 84, Tonganoxie, will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Quisenberry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie. Burial will be in Leavenworth National Cemetery.Mr. Lyons died Tuesday, April 25, 2006, at the VA Medical Center in Leavenworth.He was born Nov. 12, 1921, in Peru, Neb., the son of John and Lucy Allen Lyons.Mr. Lyons served in the U.S. Army during World War II and in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He retired from Riss International, where he was a truck driver.He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tonganoxie. He had lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Kansas City, Kan., and Tonganoxie.His wife, Helen Jean Lyons, died in 1981.Survivors include two sons, Rodney, Tonganoxie, and Donald, Independence, Mo.; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.The family will receive friends from noon until services Thursday at the funeral home.Online condolences may be sent at www.quisenberryfh.com.